Comment 6 for bug 891175

I thought i8kmon was in fact running but was not seem as it is initialized as a system process, and not a user process. But as you say it is not running, lets move on.

To investigate a little more, let me ask another question: when 'i8kfan 2 2' is executed, does the fan at least begin to function loudly? I know you said 'no reaction from the outer fan at all', but in this case, the problem is not a bug in i8kutils. That might be a hardware problem.

If the fan at least begin to function, then i8kfan can control the fan, and i8kmon can do its job. It is just a case to detect who is turning the fan off.

Just to take note, if the BIOS was the responsible for the fan, then the fan should have been working properly as in the previous instalation of Kubuntu 10.10. But it is not! So I supose there are another program that was installed at Kubuntu 10.10, which is not installed in Kubuntu 11.10. That might be fancontrol, lm-sensors, etc.